Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-21
NEWS AND NOTES.

Jay Gould's purchases of Arkansas
lands cover fully 10000 acres, located
in three different counties.
Capt, Boycott, the original Boycott,
is now the agent for the Flixton Hall
estate, near Bungay, in Suffolk
The death of Mrs. Isaac Osterhout
Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, places that town
in possession of a public library fund of
nearly $500, 1000.
The London Times announces that
the Government has sanctioned the New
foundland Bait bill which will come
nto operation in 1888.
Prince Louis, the second son of
Prince Napoleon, has taken service in
the Italian army, aud thus forfeited his
French nationality.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, sister of the
President of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, is worth about $4,000, 900,
and is a very business-like woman,
The throat affection from which the
German Crown Prince suffers is, in
some of its symptoms, not unlike the
disease of which Gen. Grant died.
Experiments made by the German
War Office have proved that melinite
decomposes if kept long, and is there
fore useless for war purposes
The Rev. Mr.. Hewitt of Ali Saints,
Babbacombe, England, has introduced
a magic lantern into his church, by
means of which he shows the Crufix-
ion
The will of Eleazer S. Slater, who died
near Medina, N. Y, last week, gives
100000 to the Synodical Board OF
Foreign Missions and the Niagara Pres
bytery.
Express-Messenge ger Fothering CHAM ha.
sued the Adams Express Company and
Camden and Pinkerton for 100000
damages for false arrest and imprison-
ment.
John Mt. Pleasant, who for sixty
years has been the head Chief of the
Iuscarora tribe of Indians, in Niagara
County, New York, died on the 10th,
ged II.
Mr.. Oscar Dickson, the munifcent
patron of the Vega expeditions has been
ennobled by his friend King Oscar Of
Sweden, and is now STYLED Baron
Dickson.
The late G. L. Goodale of Angola
Ind, was a cousin by marriage tc
President Garfield, and it was for hin
| that the latter once worked as a canal.
hand.
Col. Orville I. Calhoun of Abbeville
N. c., died suddenly while on his way
home from the unwilling of the monu.
ment to his celebrated kinsnlan al
| Charleston.
Miss Rose Cleveland will assume
charge OF the province of history ir
Miss Reeds New York school, Hell
contract enjoins upon her not to dc
literary work of any kind for outside
parties. 49,. a...- f..
There has recently been unveiled il
the City Of Corfu q state of Capod' Istria
how some sixty years ago was Presiden
OF Greece for three years and rendered
the cause Of national independence in
valuable services.
Dion Boucicault has been telling
that his slender waist and youthful all
are due to always rising from the table
hungry. Mr.. 'eorge w Childs has 9
complexion like a fresh apple, and he
seldom eats anything at the great din
ners he gives, and touches neither tes
nor coffee.
New York World: the London
papers take the very rational view thai
neither the United States nor England
want to go to war over the fisheries
question. But while this is true, it is
| just as well that John Bull should
understand that the British lions
Canadian cub must be tau ghtto behave
| itself
Judge Birdsall of Hartford, who has
been arrested for embezzlement, is the
politician whom Consul-General Wal
Ter, when he was Governor of Connec.
icut, forcibly elected from the Execu,
tive Chamber. The affair made a sen
sation at the time, and was thought tc
be Walters political deathblow. His
action, however, resulted eventually tc
his advantage.
The deeper the preparation of the
soil the deeper will the roots penetrate,
thus advancing closer to moisture, as
well as permitting of the growth of a
large proportion of those rootlets that
collect food. If the soil be shallow and the
subsoil hard the roots will spread near
er the surface, thus rendering them not
only more liable to being winter killed
but also to damage from drought.
The supposltion that young sows are
better for breeding purposes than those
two OF three years old has done much
to impair the yigor Of swine. The Gus
tom of using young sows grew out of
the loss ofyoung pigs by pressure from
the heavy dams, but large breeding
sow should not be fat and heavy. A
sow over two years old will give more
milk than younger one, and, as a
rule, she will produce stronger pigs.
70 clean looking glasses take anews-
paper fold it up six OF eight inches
square, dip it in cold water and rub the
ole L L.